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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

John Steinbeck

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

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